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This is more than welcome to be moved, but I imagine there are other people with comparable experiences, and being that it's about golf, I felt it relevant to this sub-forum.
I had the single most frustrating experience I have ever had today on the golf course. We played a local course (public, 25 bucks for twilight golf -- yeah, not terrible, but 25 bucks is 25 bucks--) for the first time. Upon arriving, we are told by the starter to 'hurry up' because a league was about to get started following our tee time. Now, that's fine, but we had a good five minutes before our actual tee time, and being that the tee time was available on their website, it was a bit frustrating that they made no attempt to welcome us to the course, and have a brief discussion about the style of play, and maybe a quick few notes about preferred rules.
Now, regarding the course. I was aware of it being a bit unorthodox, with a par 71 along with par 3s and 5 par 5s. With that said, every hole had something irritating. Whether it was a green 50+ feet above the tee, a tree directly in line with the tee box, forcing me to lay up, or worse, try to go over. Essentially, it was one of the worst courses to play without any advice off the tee. Beyond that, every green was cratered with no less than 20-30 ball marks, as well as them placing the hole in a diseased area of the green on three holes. Also, each tee box was so worn down, that we had to tee off from a separate part of the box just to get some grass on our ball.
Finally, we made the turn in great time, which makes perfect sense seeing that we managed to get off at 4.30 before everyone got off work. We pulled up onto the tenth tee to find a foursome teeing off. Ahead of them, there were a mess of additional foursomes. We tolerated two more holes before giving up, being that we were waiting at minimum, ten minutes on every hole.
I suppose it was simply not the course for me. I felt their customer service was terrible at best, and them throwing foursomes off the back nine with other people clearly making the turn is in my opinion, inexcusable.
/end rant
Feel free to add yours... I'm sure this pales in comparison to some of the stories you can share.
I had the single most frustrating experience I have ever had today on the golf course. We played a local course (public, 25 bucks for twilight golf -- yeah, not terrible, but 25 bucks is 25 bucks--) for the first time. Upon arriving, we are told by the starter to 'hurry up' because a league was about to get started following our tee time. Now, that's fine, but we had a good five minutes before our actual tee time, and being that the tee time was available on their website, it was a bit frustrating that they made no attempt to welcome us to the course, and have a brief discussion about the style of play, and maybe a quick few notes about preferred rules.
Now, regarding the course. I was aware of it being a bit unorthodox, with a par 71 along with par 3s and 5 par 5s. With that said, every hole had something irritating. Whether it was a green 50+ feet above the tee, a tree directly in line with the tee box, forcing me to lay up, or worse, try to go over. Essentially, it was one of the worst courses to play without any advice off the tee. Beyond that, every green was cratered with no less than 20-30 ball marks, as well as them placing the hole in a diseased area of the green on three holes. Also, each tee box was so worn down, that we had to tee off from a separate part of the box just to get some grass on our ball.
Finally, we made the turn in great time, which makes perfect sense seeing that we managed to get off at 4.30 before everyone got off work. We pulled up onto the tenth tee to find a foursome teeing off. Ahead of them, there were a mess of additional foursomes. We tolerated two more holes before giving up, being that we were waiting at minimum, ten minutes on every hole.
I suppose it was simply not the course for me. I felt their customer service was terrible at best, and them throwing foursomes off the back nine with other people clearly making the turn is in my opinion, inexcusable.
/end rant
Feel free to add yours... I'm sure this pales in comparison to some of the stories you can share.